It's not late. It's less than a second after he releases the puck, and when he released the puck, MacDermid is already heading into the hit.
The term "blindside" is utterly meaningless. It no longer appears anywhere in the NHL rule book, and it was a horribly stupid thing to put in to begin with. Now any time some jackass wants to argue that a hit is suspendable, they say it was a "blindside" hit. Whether the player sees it coming is not up to the guy delivering the hit. You can't make a hit into a dirty play simply by looking away from your opponent. That's insanely dumb.
Is the primary point of contact the head? Maybe. He doesn't raise up to deliberately hit the guy high, though. If he did hit him primarily in the head, it seems to be incidental to a hitting trajectory that's about as straight on as you could want given where the two players were coming from.
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